'She's just vanished': Family's horror as answers fall short

THE latest lead in the whereabouts of missing Gympie woman Bianca Gowne met with a dead end yesterday, Gympie's CIB revealed.

A possible sighting of the 20-year-old, who has been missing from Tandur since last Wednesday evening, at a service station south of Gympie this week turned out to be in the wrong time-frame, Gympie CIB Detective Sergeant Rob Lowry said.

As it reaches day eight of the search for Bianca, who was last seen at the Tandur property where she lives with her aunty and her family, emotions are running high for her family.

She was last seen between 7 and 8pm on Wednesday October 5, when she told her aunt she was checking on her horse Rebel, a beloved pet she is inseparable from, and then was going to bed.

Bianca sleeps in a separate dwelling on the property; it wasn't until the next morning her family noticed her absence.

Bianca's father Neville Gawne and mother Priscilla Lewis, who travelled to Gympie from their St George home earlier this week, said the past seven days had been 'gut-wrenching' and they are pleading for answers.